Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-27
ADDRESS TO REPUBLICANS,
By the Chairman Of the Sedgwlck
County Central Committee.

To the Voters OF eedgwick County.
Fellow Citizens Of the Prosperous County
of wick:-The Republican party o.
this great county comes before you again
asking your support at the county election
on November s, prox. 1t presents yor
with ticket which Is In Its personnel mo-
only well known to the older residents Of
of our community, but Is exceptionally
able, from every required qualification, fol
the several important offices to he filled
Even the willy leaders of the local Demo
cratic party have conceded this al
eyery turn of the canvass,
privately, publicly, and officially.
Their leaders have published In
an official paper that ut Is not question
of what ere your politics, but the question
what is for the interest Of Sedgwtck coun,
| ty and the state Of Kansas" Let us care
fully scan the field and see If the interests
of Wichita particularly are not affected by
this contest squarely upon party. grounds:
Reverting to history every Intelligent
Republican recalls with pride, whether ne
is a recruit of to-day or veteran OF 1886.
that his party never had but one banner;
and that the flag Of the great nation which
it saved against the treacherous assaults
of the Democratic party In the
hastings, the Senate and
upon eyer two thousand battle fields. AS
well might the proverbial leopard change
his spots as Republican fall to proclaim
with pride Because Of the existence OF
nv party this glorious nation exists and
chattel slavery has disappeared from my
country and this continent. He cannot
fail to know the facts that, when Democ-
racy reigned supreme they 80 far suppressed
All sumptuary laws" that homesteads on
the public lands we're not provided for;
that In bankruptcy was proclaimed the
nations strength; that reliable statistics did
not exist; that Democracy never OF their
own yalition founded public school sys-
tenn; under the aegis Of Democracy
flourished the "wild cat banks" the notes
of which were often discredited before the
ink dried on them; that carpet bagging,"
which the leaders of that party In this
local campaign refer to with such COM
placency, was first inaugurated by that
party In the fifties, when thousands OF
armed ruffians from the southern Demo-
cratic states poured into Kansas, and In
stead of attempting to exert an elevating
influence upon some down trodden victims
of wears of Democratic violence, as the SO
called southern carpet baggers did, they pro-
ceeded to establish by violence and blood
shed human slavery; and such Republican
must feel a thrill Of pride when he reviews
the history of the great struggle OF
his great party and Its great leaders
against this same Democratic party and its
vet living leaders. All of the foregoing
excrescences have been removed by the
Republican party In spite Of the anti stump
tuary law anything-to-get-othce-
sition of the Democratic party. so much
for our party's national history.
The state OF Kansas entered the union,
Republican state, in the darkest years OF
the existence of our nation against the pro-
tests of the present leaders OF prominence
In the north, from the rostrum, from the
press and congress; against protests OF the
marshaled armies of the southern demo-
cratic leaders who were then In
the field seeking the life OF
the nation, with as firm re.
solves as they now have In the cabinet and
congress that In so far as possible their
policy shall yet prevail In the nation they
sought to destroy. Within quarter OF a
century eighty odd thousand square miles OF
the mythical American desert has been
covered with civilization so advanced and
complete In all its methods that 1t Is the
shame and envy Of Democracy and the adj
miration of all who see 1t. This territory
embraces the state of Kansas, that never
knew but two years of Democratic
rule; and that only In its executive who was
SO awed by the strangeness Of the change
that he acted the part OF
governor more mechanically than
politically. Kansas stands the
creature and pride of the Republican party.
It's history and glorious achievements are
sources of Republican pride. In view Of
these facts which party, the Democratic or
Republican, can most safely be entrusted
with the government Of this state?
Sedgwick county was organized and hrst
settled about seventeen years ago 1t has
ever been Republican county. 1t is su-
perfluous to speak here of the covering OF
Its supposed desert wastes with farms, VII
lagos, towns and school houses In SO short
time; of Its capital city and its magical
growth; where the whole coterie OF Demo.
cratic local leaders were suddenly converted
from poverty to wealth and affluence,
whilst agitating, resolving or violating the
so-called "sumptuary laws OF the domi-
nant but wise Republican party: Many OF
these leaders returned from California and
other states, where they haVe been pros
pecting for freer homes, with bitter curses
In their mouths at the tyranny Of the Re
publican fanatics only to find that Re
publican methods had converted their
hitherto worthless realty into great for
tunes And 1t Is remarkable phase of
life that nearly every citizen of this city
today who is so loudly proclaiming against
the Republican party, If he had
carried out the threats OF himself
frequently, and his leaders generally, In
either estopping Republican progress In
In Kansas or emigrating to another state
more liberal in his estimation, he would
either have been poor patron Of his be
loved Institution in that place or blosted
owner of one with scarcely 1.-THE OF his
present wealth.
But the cry Of Democracy Is that the
Republican 'sumptusry laws" of Kansas
stopped the boom" that the Metropolitan
police and the Murray law causes 81 money
stringency that is general withshigh interest
from Maine to Oregon, and the lakes tc
the gnlf. II you viii put half dozen o.
the ungrateful Democratic leaders In possess
ion of the offices of this country and thu
add little more to their party strength In
the state and nation they will put a stop TO
the financial stringency and call on th'
"boom." The live Democracy revels anC
fattens Ia famine, the hour of distress 4
Its opportunity for gold conquests over th'
unthinking citizens prejudices upon some
bsseless plea.
The Republican party Is a party o
patriotism and courage: 1t has ever cor
rected It's mistakes within It's own rank
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